From PC World: Ellen Pao, interim CEO of online community site Reddit, offered the site’s users an apology Monday, saying that “we screwed up.”
She went on to acknowledge a litany of sins, focusing on poor communication from site administrators about major changes, broken promises and a lack of...
From CNET: If you're hankering after the latest Sony camera, in particularly the new Cyber-shot RX100 IV and RX10 II, the good news that you'll be able to get it this month if you live in Australia or countries in Asia.
Sony is making a big push to retail its latest two compacts in the region, and...
From DailyTech: In short order Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) closed out the fourth of July weekend by delivering not one, but two fresh Windows 10 builds to Fast Ring Insider Preview testers. Builds 10159 and 10162 bring minimal superficial changes on the surface, but based on my testing they bring a...
From CNET: For Amazon Prime members, Christmas is coming early this year.
To celebrate Amazon's 20th birthday next week, the e-commerce giant is introducing Prime Day, offering up what it claims will include "more deals than Black Friday." The summer sale will be held Wednesday, July 15 -- the day...
From ComputerWorld: Uber Technologies is suspending its UberPop service in France, after a bitter fight with taxi drivers who say the service breaks the law.
The company plans to remove access to UberPop from its mobile app in France from 8 p.m. local time Friday, it said in a blog post.
UberPop...
From InfoWorld: Sprint this week quickly reversed plans to impose a 600Kbps limit on streaming video as part of a promotion called "All-In" that charges $80 a month for unlimited talk, text and high-speed data.
The All-In plan, announced Tuesday, ironically was intended to "end consumer confusion...
From CRN: Microsoft is expanding the enterprise capabilities of Skype for Business to make the popular video-conferencing platform a more ubiquitous tool in the workplace.
On Wednesday, the software giant initiated a tech preview of new meeting and voice-calling capabilities integrated into Office...
Recently, I took a graduate-level course in Computer Science. Since Computer Science courses are not restricted to Computer Science students only, there was a range of students enrolled in that class, including people from Electrical Engineering and Physics. On the first day of class, it did not take long for me to match some individuals up with their corresponding major. For example, there was a guy that had a relatively large build, had curly...
From ComputerWorld: Microsoft today confirmed that it would roll out the free upgrades to Windows 10 later this month in several "waves," with beta testers getting first dibs on the OS.
Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education, editions available only to volume licensing customers, will be...
From PC World: Cisco Systems recently realized that its Unified Communications Domain Manager (Unified CDM) software contains a default privileged account with a static password that cannot be changed, exposing the platform to hacking by remote attackers.
The Cisco Unified CDM is part of the Cisco...
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